Is it you that just wanted a big open world? Or is it going to be RPGish? Not played in a long time, but I like to build stuff when I do and I see you have island. Cool things need to be built on islands :p

Is it you that just wanted a big open world? Or is it going to be RPGish? Not played in a long time, but I like to build stuff when I do and I see you have island. Cool things need to be built on islands :p

it looks like Sandinmygum is the user name.

Sandinmygum has been added to the white list

As for open world/RPGish, I plan to do a little of both. It will have a light touch of RPG. We won't be forcing people to role play like on some servers, but I do plan to have admin hosted events. There will be PvP battlegrounds akin to WoW, where players have certain objectives (capture the flag, domination, etc.). There will also be 4 major Zelda-esk dungeon crawls-- massive dungeons that become more difficult the deeper you go, and in some instances require teamwork to get through. They'll be filled with traps and puzzles and chests with loot and bookcases players can learn useful spells (magic spells plugin) from.

I also plan to have the Autocraft plugin so that ships can sail across the sea and air, but that will require some extensive testing and will have major limits in place to prevent it from causing server lag.

Aside from this, it will still be very much Minecraft. Players can build freely anywhere in the wilderness and claim the land using the Factions plugin so that other players cannot place or break blocks on said land without permission.

I also will not force world PvP on players who don't want it. Players will be able to claim their faction as "peaceful", meaning they cannot attack or be attacked. Even though Faction raiding is the most fun anyone can have in Minecraft :p

huh, I am a big minecraft newb (bought it less than 10 days ago) - think my name is cycnet. Might check this out if that's cool.

Edited, May 14th 2012 1:28pm by Olorinus

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lolgaxe wrote:

When it comes to sitting around not doing anything for long periods of time, only being active for short windows, and marginal changes and sidegrades I'd say FFXI players were the perfect choice for politicians.

When it comes to sitting around not doing anything for long periods of time, only being active for short windows, and marginal changes and sidegrades I'd say FFXI players were the perfect choice for politicians.

He might mean he is making his own Minecraft server based upon EQ lore.

As for my original post, my server is down at the moment due to the hosting service I paid for crapping out on me. I lost about 14 hours worth in building work on the server, but most of it is still saved on my PC. I plan to completely finish building each major city/dungeon/landmark before attempting to find a more reliable hosting service. So it could be a few months still before the server is up again considering I have no help with building.

When it comes to sitting around not doing anything for long periods of time, only being active for short windows, and marginal changes and sidegrades I'd say FFXI players were the perfect choice for politicians.

Hey Spoonless, if you plan on logging in again, you should save the base you made in the ground.

type /f create then the name you want to make a "faction." This will enable you to claim land for yourself. That way other players who aren't in your faction will be unable to place or break blocks inside the range of your claim. You can type /f claim on areas that are "wilderness." This will make all blocks above and below you within a 6 block radius yours. You will need to do /f claim several times to cover all your land.

Oh, cool. I just made the spot on the water as a safehouse because it was across from some coal. That underground spot was mostly to mine. I stopped after a while when I was getting a lot of monsters slowing me down. I might just save my little hit on the water; I don't know that I'll be a frequent-enough player to save an extended plot of land.

Man I really need to try this. Der. So much videogaming to do, so little time.

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lolgaxe wrote:

When it comes to sitting around not doing anything for long periods of time, only being active for short windows, and marginal changes and sidegrades I'd say FFXI players were the perfect choice for politicians.

We just upgraded to 8GB RAM (150 slots). We likely won't have that many players on at any given time any time soon, but the added RAM will help us carry our plugins without having to reset nearly as much.